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As India attempted to accelerate the scoring successful its women’s ODI World Cup clash with Pakistan, erstwhile India skipper Sandhya Agrawal, seated successful the media container astatine the Holkar Stadium here, could not defy making observations.
“The stance is precise wide today. So wide that the little portion is staying successful place, which could beryllium a problem, but it suits her,” she exclaimed to The Hindu.
That Sandhya was speedy to prime up connected nuances of play was hardly surprising. India’s archetypal women’s squad skipper Shantha Rangaswamy cheekily called her Sandhya ‘Technique’ Agrawal.
A mainstay of India for astir a decade, Sandhya served with distinction, with the item being a sublime 190 against England successful a Test lucifer successful 1986, past the highest idiosyncratic people successful women’s cricket. Her microscopic speechmaking of the crippled held her successful bully lasting arsenic she moved connected to coaching and scouting.
Given the frequence of multi-day cricket during her time, Sandhya remains optimistic astir the women’s crippled embracing the longest format eventually.
“India is playing much ODIs and T20s. ICC has said that determination should beryllium a Test successful each series. Maybe things are dilatory changing. I deliberation dilatory attraction volition beryllium fixed to each formats. Maybe the women volition besides person thing similar the World Test Championship that men have. It is possible.”
It’s ever fascinating to quiz players connected however their procreation would clasp up successful the satellite of slam-bang T20 cricket. Sandhya brushed disconnected immoderate suggestions of struggle.
“If we had T20, past decidedly our crippled would person changed. We’d play to conscionable those demands.
“But successful our time, determination were much Tests. Though if we had played similar this... accidental a scoop shot, they would person thrown america out. But this is the request now, truthful it’s not a large deal. Scenarios change, everything volition change,” she says.
